During a routine maintenance window, an administrator runs sudo apt update on an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS server and receives the following output:
Err: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.39 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
The server is running Ubuntu 22.04 (codename jammy), but the APT configuration still references the focal repositories that belong to Ubuntu 20.04. Because no Release file for focal exists at that path, APT blocks the repository for security reasons and the update fails. Replacing every occurrence of focal with jammy in the relevant files under /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ aligns the repository URLs with the server's actual release, after which apt update will succeed.
Importing keys, clearing the cache, or switching to HTTPS will not fix a release-mismatch error, so those choices would leave the update problem unresolved.
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